Sun Mote Copse I thought my world was crumbling

Because... I don't know, you just can't, okay?!  She'd almost misunderstood, and thought he was asking why she wanted to learn in the first place.  Really she didn't want to tell him either answer.  It was fine to not want them to know because it felt like a cop out on all the things she'd wanted to do before; but as soon as she said it out loud, it would make her sound like she was trying too hard.

She was trying too hard, but he didn't need to know that.

If you do, I'll figure out how to put a curse on you, she said, with only a small smirk to indicate she was joking.  Cursing probably wasn't a part of his lessons, but if she was going to become a proper witch of the glade, she wasn't about to miss a chance to look into it.